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The fight over reproductive rights and abortion is deeply personal to those in the trenches, yet Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tries below to make a pragmatic — in addition to a personal — argument in favor of reproductive rights. Treading …

A TEENAGER has been crowned the world’s youngest billionaire as she makes on average a whopping £125,000 a day since she was born. Livia Voigt, 19, is an heiress of the electrical machines company WEG with a stake in the company. …

A BOY found a human skull on ‘Devil’s beach’ decades after a disaster killed 23 people – in a discovery that could solve the mystery. Nearly two dozen Chinese workers drowned on Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, in a cockling disaster in …

A SUSPECTED drunk cruise ship passenger hurled himself overboard as families watched on in horror. The man, 20, is said to have yelled “I’ll fix this right now” before jumping out the window of the 18-storey Liberty of the Seas. …

POLICE have found a body in the hunt for a sex attacker who vanished after a woman was found dead at his home. Richard Scatchard, 70, was last seen in Minehead, Somerset, in October last year – disappearing the day after …

A MUM stole a £50,000 inheritance left for her own daughters by their gran, a court has heard. Katherine Hill, 53, splashed out on shopping trips to Primark and New Look after allegedly raiding the bequest. WNSKatherine allegedly raided her …

Gavin Sheets of the White Sox is tagged out at home plate by Salvador Perez of the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on April 4, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Getty Images) Jay Biggerstaff/Getty KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The …

The possible locations of King Arthur’s sword, Excalibur (Picture: Metro.co.uk) King Arthur’s sword, better known as Excalibur, is the stuff of legend.  Or is it?  King Arthur is a figure of medieval literary tradition, although some people think he was …

It’s a true patriotic smorgasbord (Picture: @Conservatives/X) It must be a fun day in Tory HQ when they’re asked to make a new graphic for social media. Even better when the remit is simply, ‘find a bunch of images that …

Wild macaques in Hong Kong (Picture: Getty) A man has been left fighting for his life in intensive care after contracting a deadly form of herpes from monkeys in Hong Kong. The 37-year-old was wounded by wild macaques in February …

Police cordon off an area of the Kersal Wetlands (Picture: MEN Media) A murder investigation has been launched after human remains were found wrapped in plastic at a nature reserve in Manchester. The remains were discovered in the woods at …

A couple of years ago, California’s left-leaning interest groups — those seeking a more expansive array of social and medical services to benefit workers and the state’s large population of low-income residents — seemed to be making a breakthrough after …

More than two weeks after his body was discovered in the bushes on the north side of Travis Boulevard, near Interstate 80, the man found deceased has now been identified and investigators believe the cause of his death was homicide. …

PHOENIX — A hot air balloon pilot had an elevated level of an anesthetic in his system at the time of a January crash that killed four people in southern Arizona, according to a newly released autopsy report. Toxicology tests …

Nearly a year ago, State Farm stopped issuing new insurance policies for homes and businesses in California, accelerating a tsunami of major insurance company departures. At the time, the most obvious impacts of these withdrawals were on single-family homeowners. But …

Miramonte lacrosse player Sydney Gray is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week for March 25-30. In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Gray finished with 40.49% of the votes. San Mateo softball …

SANTA CLARA — Apple has slashed hundreds of jobs in Silicon Valley, an ominous disclosure that suggests the tech industry’s staffing cutbacks have yet to run their course in the Bay Area. The tech titan has revealed plans to chop …

American baseball player Micah Boo is the Bay Area News Group’s boys high school athlete of the week for March 25-30. In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Boo had 42.46% of the vote to finish ahead of …

HOUSTON — In the Warriors’ biggest game to date, in the Toyota Center with a chance to essentially seal a play-in spot, with “Warriors come out to play” chattering in the lead-up, Trayce Jackson-Davis delivered a career-high 20 points. None …

Giant robot games are having a moment. FromSoftware revived its mech franchise with “Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon.” “Mecha Break,” a futuristic multiplayer game, turned heads during The Game Awards. Now, Piranha Games is entering the mix with a …